LECTURE



Thursday, March 6, 2003

THE INTOLERANCE OF "TOLERANCE"

D. A. Carson
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

7:30 PM, Grote 129, UTC Campus

Donald A. Carson is one of the most distinguished and widely published
Protestant theologians in the world today. A research professor of New
Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois,
where he has taught since 1978, Carson has written or edited over forty-five
books including The Sermon on the Mount, Exegetical Fallacies, From
Triumphalism to Maturity and many other works. His lecture consists in a
critical analysis of the modern conception of "tolerance." The nature of
"tolerance" has changed across the centuries, and looks different in diverse
cultures. Carson's lecture will attempt to examine the meaning of
contemporary Western notions of tolerance, and will ask whether they have
made us a more "tolerant" people---or paradoxically less so.

Dr. Carson's visit to UTC is sponsored by the SunTrust Chair of Excellence
in Humanities, and the lecture is free and open to the public.